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I don't konw man, the post I literally quoted above said Derrick is LEADING the Celtics.
LEAD? lmao! Incredible.White will lead the Celtics to a championship, and some people on SpursTalk will still say that Boston overpaid for him
I don't konw man, the post I literally quoted above said Derrick is LEADING the Celtics.
This is ridiculous. Dude is a Boston homer but dude definitely knows more about basketball than a lot of people.
Its almost like you're leaving out another very big part of hte trade or something.
score one for d white and klingons everywhere!
Getting a late first + a solid rotation player in Richardson + a project in Romeo + Pick swap option down the road was a good return. They also moved off White's salary. We know the Spurs aren't going to be contenders anytime soon so White's value to a playoff contender like the C's is far higher than to a play-in contender like the Spurs.
But it is hilarious reading this thread hating on White. Dude balling out in the NBA finals but posters saying 'just you watch, he'll suck again". Meanwhile, the Spurs highlight of the last two seasons was scrubbing it up in a play-in game lol. White is very streaky on offense so maybe he won't play another good offensive game but the C's won big because they wouldn't be in the Finals and have a real chance to win a championship without White.
great game by Derrick. Like I said the trade was great, both teams got better. It was just about fit
White is going to have every opportunity to be a hero in game two also.
what stood out to me most about about d-white last night was how poised he looked for someone who was playing in his first finals game.
Honestly White is a veteran, he has been in the playoffs with less talented teams, which means he has been in situations where he has been asked to do too much for example. His shooting is the inconsistent thing. He always brings effort and hustle.
Thinking about it, he didn’t play in the last two play in appearances for the Spurs, the most recent one because he was traded, and the year before he was injured while Demar and Dejounte chucked away and came up empty. Have to be honest. The last time he played in elimination type games for the Spurs was the NBA bubble, where he was absolutely fantastic, actually shot the ball well and looked like the Spurs best player for the entire bubble playing like a star. He was as confident as he was in this last Celtics game.
Cheering for him at home.
He does a lot of things well and has a complete game. He started off great with the Spurs in the playoff series against Denver. He was keeping up with Jamal Murray but as soon they needed him to step up, he shrank. He was never a leader or go to player. Like someone else mentioned, he needed to be on another team with better players so he could shine in pockets - not consistently. I really don’t think there was anything to the foot injury causing his confidence to be shot. He’s just inconsistent. His offensive highs are high though and he is a solid defensive player. He’s just better off on another team. The Spurs needed more for him & he was a high level role player they couldn’t afford.
Last edited by tmtcsc; 06-03-2022 at 03:26 PM.
Derrick White had a really good game. Boston should be happy they won a game in the Finals due to his contribution. For that alone, this erases a lot of his mediocre play up until now and makes the trade worth it for them, honestly. I hope he continues to do well, but based on prior history, this may be his isolated good game, and then he reverts to old ways. But we'll see. The Boston players are intense and probably more likely to push him than our players did. But more importantly, this is his best role, as a role player on a great team. This reminds me of Danny Green getting hot versus the Heat in 13. He goes hot and cold. We'll see if he stays hot.
i don't think this was an isolated game. white was pretty solid, overall, in the heat series as well.
I am enjoying the warriors losing so much that I may just jinx the Celtics. I hope no. Lol
I feel like I have to reign in my cheering. This thing is far from over still. I dont think the warriors will key in on White. They have better players to worry about. If they do, TAtum will roast them and I am hoping he does. The Celtics have actually faced some good teams to get to this series and I think it has prepared them adequately for this, but I still have the supers itious fan factors lol
Leaving this here:
the warriors don't respect white, as evidenced by their leaving him wide open and draymond's post-game comments, so i hope that white makes them pay for it (and horford, too).
How many Finals MVPs are we going to trade away for nothingtbh...
Not the thread but I'm really impressed by Udoka, Celts are playing good solid basketball sharing the ball. Udoka is as good as a coach as he was bad as a player tbh... Hopefully he will coach the Spurs one day
I suppose I was thinking about big scoring games. He always does the little things, which is good.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-rumors-...173500003.html
From the latest Lowe podcast:
"The Celtics were 32-25 when they made that trade," Lowe began. "Their surge was beginning, but it was not super obvious that they were a juggernaut in the making. They had looked really good, but their schedule had been pretty easy. You couldn't, from the outside, just automatically conclude that this was a juggernaut waiting to happen."
"Internally, the Celtics thought, 'We've figured something out, and we think we're really, really good. And we view this Derrick White trade not like you view it in this sort of cold, calculating way. ... We view it as, we might be able to win the championship. This might be our once piece away, and if we have to overpay a little bit, we don't care, because we think we're that good.'"
Derrick back to looking like hot garbage. Dude is so bipolar and plays scared so often. You hate to see it.
The officials have got in his head, as well as the rest of the Celtics tbh.
The officials have been horrendous thus far. Some serious home-cookin’ going on.
Three straight winning plays
Pass for a layup
Mid range
Three
“”Mama there goes that man”
Tatum needs to wake up. Dude is a turnover machine. Has been all playoffs.
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